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Fact and Rumor.

There will be no lecture in History 16 on Thursday of this week.

Princeton's new base-ball cage is ready for use.

Huntington has been elected temporary captain of the Yale freshman nine.

The N. Y. Herald of last week Thursday, had a long article on Stagg, Yale's crack pitcher.

The Intercollegiate Lacrosse Convention will be held at the Sturtevant House, N. Y., on Saturday, Feb. 11.

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Ex-President Porter, of Yale, has recently prepared a volume of his sermons.

Messrs. Ginn and Co. will publish in April next "Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages," from the battle of Adrianople to the death of Charlemagne (A. D. 378 814), by Ephraim Emerton, Professor of History in Harvard University.

Fifteen men are competitors for the prize in high jumping in Yale's weekly contests, and eleven men are candidates for the prize in putting the shot.

Mr. H. E. Scott, proctor in Weld, will leave college this week. Mr. J. H. Gray, '87, at present proctor in College House, will take his place.

Mr. J. H. Gray, '87, has been appointed an instructor, and will take Assistant-Prof. Laughlin's place in the Political Economy department.

Charles E. Schwager, '91, of Amherst College, shot himself through the head in his room Saturday night, and will probably die.

The examination in N. H. 6 will be held in the Biological Laboratory Museum of Comparative Zoology instead of in Sever 30.

At the second annual meeting of the Central Inter-Collegiate Press Association in Phila., W. L. Hodge, of the Princetonian, was elected president.

During the year ending last June, 1,700,000,000 cigarettes were sold in this country-an enormous increase over the year before.- Yale News.

The Yale nine will not make the Easter trip which it had expected to, as the management was not able to make satisfactory arrangements.

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